Record numbers are expected to start the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon tomorrow morning, Sunday 24 April, after nearly 40,000 registered for the race over the last four days. When registration desks at the London Marathon Expo at ExCeL London closed at 17:00 today, a total of 39,698 accepted applicants...
Sanga hopes to break Duesseldorf’s course record, Ionescu and Ramos target national records Patrick Sanga hopes to bounce back in style when he runs the METRO GROUP Marathon Duesseldorf on Sunday. The Kenyan missed out on the Hannover Marathon two weeks ago because of a visa problem and now intends to...
The 2016 IAAF Diamond League starts in two weeks’ time and the excitement is already starting to mount. The traditional opening meeting in Doha has assembled some of the sport’s top stars to get proceedings underway for the seventh year of the series. World champions Allyson Felix, Christian Taylor, Dafne...
World champion Nicholas Bett heads a 400m hurdles line-up at the 2016 Shanghai Diamond League that could even put the meeting’s favourite event, the sprint hurdles, in the shade. Bett produced one of the shocks of the World Championships in Beijing last summer when he won gold in the one-lap...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved LONDON (21-Apr) -- Of the 21 athletes on the elite women's start list for Sunday's Virgin Money London Marathon, there is only one American: Sara Hall of Redding, Calif. The 33 year-old will be running in her fourth marathon...
Boston Marathon Belongs to Ethiopia This Year By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (18-Apr) -- Athletes from Ethiopia dominated the 120th Boston Marathon here today, sweeping both the men's and women's divisions for the first time in the same year, and capturing five of the...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (26-Apr) -- Chris O'Hare of Scotland and Brook Handler Ann Arbor, Mich., were victorious here today in the eighth edition of the B.A.A. Invitational Mile held on the streets of Back Bay. In tactical races contested in sunny...
By David Monti, @d9monti (c) 2016 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved BOSTON (16-Apr) -- On a sunny but bracing Spring morning here, Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia and Molly Huddle of Providence, R.I., ran to victory in the eighth edition of the B.A.A. 5-K in Back Bay, each collecting their third...
Eloise Wellings chats about her Olympic aspirations, fighting injury, her charity and more.
